YIMBY News for 1/29

[Eric Budd]

Seattle Leads Nation in Affordable Apartment Production

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 47.52. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing crisis, income, market-rate, project, rent, renter, supply, urban, zone, zoning

Affordable housing production is trending upward across the United States, and Seattle is leading the way. A new report from RentCafe found the Seattle metropolitan area has produced 14,290 affordable apartments over the previous five years, more than any other metro region. Seattle’s total narrowly edged out New York City, which produced 14,240 affordable apartments in the same time period from 2020 to 2024, and Austin, Texas, which produced 13,342. Minnesota’s Twin Cities metro came in fourth with 10,722 apartments produced, followed by Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, and the “Bay Area.” Note:

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As Number of Homeless People Rises in Missouri, Cities Confront Cross-Border ‘Drop-Offs’

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.00. development, housing, housing and urban development, income, project, transportation, urban

Officials collected video evidence of out-of-state law enforcement vehicles dropping people off at truck stops. Some medical systems seemed to be involved, too. (Illustration by Naomi O'Donnell / The Beacon) *This article was originally published by The Beacon: Missouri.* For years, stories circulated around Joplin, Missouri, about the city’s homeless population and how they arrived in the city. Calls would come in to city officials following a recurring theme. “People were coming to the City Council meetings and saying, ‘I don’t know why you guys don’t know this, but I’m witnessing busloads o

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The Urban Futures We Lost to the Automobile

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.33. house, mobility, project, segregation, transportation, urban

Bruce Carvalho is the author of "The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World." (Photos courtesy of ) In the 1910 novel “The Sleeper Awakes,” H. G. Wells took on a plotline familiar from Mercier’s and Bellamy’s stories. The protagonist wakes up in London 200 years into the future. Unlike his predecessors, however, he finds a dystopian society. The city had grown vertically. If in Haussmannian buildings the poor often lived in attics above the rich, now the working classes inhabited labyrinthine subterranean dwellings, invisible to the ruling classes living high up above

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Colorado now has 6 million people, even amid slowly population growth

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.88. apartment, construction, growth, house, housing, housing price, income, rent, supply

In 2025, Colorado hit a new high: 6 million people. The state had been very close to that mark for years. After adding about 24,000 more residents in the prior 12 months, the population finally pushed past 6 million on July 1. More precisely, it landed at 6,012,561, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But 24,000 is such a tiny number compared to 6 million. The annual growth rate was 0.4%, the lowest in decades. It was even lower than the U.S. growth rate of 0.5%. [image: chart visualization] Last decade, Colorado’s population growth was nearly twice the rate of the rest of the U.S., with the

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